The Blackhawks wrapped up their final full practice Wednesday prior to Game 1 of their Western Conference first-round series against the Nashville Predators.

Here are some sights and sounds from Wednesday:

— Forward Andrew Desjardins and defenseman Michal Rozsival were the lone Blackhawks not to participate in the practice. Desjardins is day to day with a lower-body injury. Rozsival had a procedure done Tuesday to repair facial fractures. Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville expected Rozsival to be available at some point in the playoffs.

— The Blackhawks had the same lines and defenseman pairings in their last two practices.

Lines

Nick Schmaltz – Jonathan Toews – Richard Panik

Artemi Panarin – Artem Anisimov – Patrick Kane

Ryan Hartman – Marcus Kruger – Marian Hossa

John Hayden – Tanner Kero – Jordin Tootoo

Defenseman pairings

Duncan Keith – Niklas Hjalmarsson

Johnny Oduya – Brent Seabrook

Brian Campbell – Trevor van Riemsdyk

Corey Crawford has played in 83 playoff games for the Blackhawks. (Dennis Wierzbicki/USA TODAY Sports)

— Corey Crawford will be the Blackhawks’ No. 1 goalie entering the playoffs for the seventh consecutive season. Crawford was excited to get things going.

“The intensity’s a lot higher,” Crawford said. “Obviously, every game means something during the season, but in the playoffs it’s just a little more. The crowds are louder. It’s just more fun to play in the playoffs.”

— Quenneville discussed the importance of special teams entering the series.

“I think they’re equally important,” Quenneville said of the power play and penalty kill. “You can win with your power play. You can win with your penalty killing and I think over the course of a series, one of them is going to make a difference and could make the differential.

“We like our special teams and penalty kill outside of the start of the season. We’ve been pleased with it. Our power play has had some moments where it’s been ready to explode and had some good stretches and we’re going to need it to be effective.”

Neither team was among the league’s best this season. The Predators were 16th with an 18.9 power-play percentage and 15th with a 80.9 penalty-kill percentage. The Blackhawks were 19th with a 18.0 power-play percentage and 24th with a 77.7 penalty-kill percentage. The Blackhawks’ penalty kill allowed 15 power-play goals in their first 30 chances and then just 32 goals on their last 181 chances.

— The Blackhawks put some work into their power play during the practice.

The first unit included Keith, Seabrook, Kane, Panarin and Toews. The second unit had two variations with Campbell, van Riemsdyk, Hossa, Panik and Anisimov as one and Campbell, Schmaltz, Hossa, Panik and Anisimov as the other.

Ryan Hartman will be one of four Blackhawks playing in their first playoff game. (Kevin Hoffman/USA TODAY Sports)

— Four Blackhawks — Hartman, Hayden, Kero, Schmaltz — will be playing in their first playoff game on Thursday. Quenneville said he doesn’t want those players being tight going into the game.

“I think around our guys, I think as a team, as a staff, we try things, whether we lighten up the day or whatever, but I think we all know that when you come into the game, it’s a game,” Quenneville said. “There’s a little more emphasis or whether you say pressure, but we don’t want to change their approach or their habits in between and your preparation shouldn't change much at all, but knowing the importance of every shift is a little more demanding and that consistency is something you try to instill over the course of the season and you apply it now. I think there’s been some good progression in a lot of the kids’ games and we’re going to need these guys’ contributions. “

Niklas Hjalmarsson and his wife had a child last week. (Anne-Marie Sorvin/USA TODAY Sports)

— Hjalmarsson is a pretty good quote in general. Here’s him on a few different topics.

On having child born prior to the playoffs:

“It’s a big relief to be able to be a part of it myself, to be in town for it. I’m excited, glad everything went well. Also glad, it’s the most fun part of the year when it comes to hockey. I’m just excited to get the playoffs going and be back with the team here and just try to do my thing.”

On the Predators’ top line of Filip Forsberg, Ryan Johansen and Viktor Arvidsson:

“They got a mix of everything. You got the speedy, little shifty guy in Arvidsson that’s everywhere and is a good goal scorer too. He reached that 30-goal mark which is really tough to do this league. And then you have Forsberg who is just a pure sniper. You don’t really notice him that much every game, but then he just gets one chance and he just buries it right away. You just have to be focused every single shift against that guy. And Johansen is a great playmaker. So I feel like that whole line their combination is highly, highly skilled. I don’t know exactly, but they have to be one of the best lines the last two months in the league or something. I just feel like they’ve been scoring pretty much every game. So it’s going to be a fun challenge to try to shut them down.”

On the NHL’s decision on the Olympics (Hjalmarsson was not with the team when it was made):

“Extremely disappointed. And the reason behind it too, I don’t feel like it makes a lot of sense. Just looking back playing the Olympics last time in Russia, I thought that was an experience of a lifetime. I thought it was a lot of fun. Especially when they’re talking about growing the game, what better market this year than playing in the Olympics where people don’t really watch a lot of hockey or know a lot about hockey, and they just flip the channel and there’s hockey on TV, try to get them sucked in that way. I don’t know. I feel like there’s mixed signals and really disappointed. Yeah, just disappointing for the hockey world I feel like, all the kids back home in Sweden, all the countries where they look forward to see these types of events, see their role models play and represent their own country. Yeah, I honestly thought they were going to let us go. I guess they’re not willing to.”

Scott Powers is the lead hockey writer for The Athletic Chicago. Previously, he covered the Blackhawks and the White Sox for ESPN Chicago. He has also written for the Daily Herald and the Chicago Sun-Times and has been a sportswriter in the Chicagoland area for the past 15 years. Follow Scott on Twitter @byscottpowers.